Schools Program
ACCA’s popular schools program continued to grow, with many repeat visitations, especially to NEW09 which has become part of the annual calendar for many schools. Over 8,000 students accessed ACCA’s program including 3,000 who attended workshops and guided tours tailored to the curriculum and presented by ACCA’s professional education staff.
Go Program
The Go West program originally supported by the Besen Foundation and targeting schools in the Western suburbs was expanded in 2008 to target schools from low socioeconomic backgrounds in other geographic areas. This was made possible through grants from other Trusts and Foundations. The program provided free buses to transport secondary school classes to ACCA for free workshops linking the exhibition program to the curriculum.
Multicultural Arts Program (MAP)
ACCA launched a new access program supported by the Scanlon Foundation and in consultation with the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY). MAP consisted of a series of intensive participatory workshops for newly arrived young people from a variety of cultural groups including refugees. ACCA partnered with its precinct neighbours Chunky Move and Malthouse Theatre to deliver workshops in the 3 art forms – visual arts, dance and theatre – led by artists in collaboration with teaching staff and youth workers from CMY.
Infocube
This new initiative, supported by the Harold Mitchell Foundation, provided an information resource in ACCA’s foyer to access articles, press, images and other background relating to current and past ACCA exhibitions.
Sound & Video Files
ACCA continued to produce recorded guides by artists and ACCA curatorial staff which can be accessed via its website and infocube. In 2008 this extended to a videofile made for the Jim Lambie exhibition.
Arts Immersion
ACCA delivered 3 workshops through the ‘Arts Immersion: Starting Points’ program in partnership with Malthouse Theatre and Chunky Move. The program increased in popularity, attracting students from a range of regional Victorian schools to undertake day workshops across the 3 art forms of visual arts, theatre and dance.
VRAP
The Victorian Arts Centre’s, VRAP9 program, in collaboration with ACCA, continued to offer regionally based Year 9 level students with the opportunity to gain access to and engage in talks about cutting-edge contemporary art.
Public Program: ‘Look Who’s Talking’ and ‘In conversation’ evenings
ACCA’s popular ‘Look Who’s Talking’ program continued with free Sunday afternoon talks by artists, curators and social commentators linked to the exhibition program. A special ‘in conversation’ evening event coincided with each season, with ACCA’s Artistic Director, Juliana Engberg talking with exhibiting artists about their work.
Talk – Paul Knight, artist
16 March 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW08.
Talk – Chris Bond, artist
30 March 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW08.
Talk – Daniel Argyle, artist
6 April 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW08.
Talk – Jonathan Jones, artist
13 April 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW08.
Talk – Matt Hinkley, artist
20 April 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW08.
Talk – Gabrielle de Vietri, artist
4 May 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW08.
Talk – Anna Macdonald, curator
11 May 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition NEW08.
In Conversation – Juliana Engberg and Lyndal Jones
26 May 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears.
Talk – Rory O’Brien, artist
29 June 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears.
Talk – Hannah Mathews, associate curator
6 July 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears.
Talk – Lyndal Jones, artist
13 July 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears.
Talk – Juliana Engberg, curator
20 July 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears.
Talk – Danny Saunders and Benny Merris, assistants to Jim Lambie
13 July 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Jim Lambie: Eight Miles High.
Talk – Naomi Cass, curator
10 August 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Rosslynd Piggot – Extract: in 3 parts.
Talk – Rosslynd Piggot, artist
10 August 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Rosslynd Piggot – Extract: in 3 parts.
Talk – Gabrielle de Vietri
31 August 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Jim Lambie: Eight Miles High.
Talk – Sarah Guest, horticultural writer
14 September 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Rosslynd Piggot – Extract: in 3 parts.
Talk – Rebecca Coates, associate curator
10 September 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Rosslynd Piggot – Extract: in 3 parts.
Talk – Bridget Keane, academic
19 October 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Intimacy.
Talk – Caroline Lee, artist
2 November 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Intimacy.
Talk – Michael Arnold, academic
9 November 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Intimacy.
Talk – Robyn Archer, performer
9 November 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Intimacy.
Talk – Anna Macdonald, curator
30 November 2008
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Intimacy.
Lecture – The Art of Evolution
8 June 2008
A lecture by Professor Peter Currie, developmental geneticist, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears.
Keynote Lecture – Professor Elizabeth Grosz, philosopher
14 August 2008
Renowned academic, professor Elizabeth Grosz discussed ideas pertinent to the exhibition Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears in her keynote lecture, held in conjunction with RMIT University.
Fundraiser – Party!
24 July 2008
Guests partied the night away at the Sofitel Hotel, swooning to the blues of Kelly Wolfgramm, and the rhythms of the The Bamboos. DJ Nick Rutherford kept everyone dancing through the night at ACCA’s annual fundraiser. Hosted by Sofitel, MC’d by Virginia Trioli and supported by Sotheby’s Australia. An auction included artwork by internationally acclaimed Australian artist, Susan Norrie.
VIP invitation